getAnywhere {utils}

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Retrieve an R Object, Including from a Name Space

Description

These functions locates all objects with name matching its argument, whether visible on the search path, registered as an S3 method or in a name space but not exported. getAnywhere() returns the objects and argsAnywhere() returns the arguments of any objects that are functions.

Usage

getAnywhere(x)
argsAnywhere(x)

Arguments

x	a character string or name.

Details

The function looks at all loaded name spaces, whether or not they are associated with a package on the search list.

Where functions are found as an S3 method, an attempt is made to find which name space registered them. This may not be correct, especially if a name space is unloaded.

Value

For getAnywhere() an object of class "getAnywhere". This is a list with components

name	the name searched for.
objs	a list of objects found
where	a character vector explaining where the object(s) were found
visible	logical: is the object visible
dups	logical: is the object identical to one earlier in the list.

Normally the structure will be hidden by the print method. There is a [ method to extract one or more of the objects found.

For argsAnywhere() one or more argument lists as returned by args.

See Also

get, getFromNamespace, args

Examples

getAnywhere("format.dist")
getAnywhere("simpleLoess") # not exported from stats
argsAnywhere(format.dist)

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